Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Globalization, Commercial Bank, Industrial Revolution
11 Apr 2016
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What is urban: humans crossed the line bt predominantly rural to predominantly urban in 2007, urbanization the spread and growth of cities, definition varies for different countries. How the boundaries of an urban centre are drawn. Globally speaking, humans become predominantly urban: for several thousands of years after the emergence of the first urbanpopulation was slow. Onset of industrial revolution: pace of urbanization picked up: recent transition from rural to urban dominance has been rapid: 1800: 3% of world population were urban dwellers. Today: slightly more than 50% urban: urban accelerating, rural declining (graph trends, urban growth varies from region to region. Urbanization levels are highest in the more developed regions (75% or more) Less developed regions have a lower levels of urbanization. But a more rapid rate of urbanization. Both regions have 2 things in common: the proportion of people living in cities is rising. 2. that cities themselves are large and growing physically.
